Then it's on to the usual hospital procedures of blood draws,blood pressure checks and so on as they check me in medically. Whathappened next was unex...pected but not surprising when I thought about itas one of the nurses came in and shaved my crotch completely. Thestrangest aspect of this procedure came to mind when I realized thiswas to be the very last time anyone other than myself would ever touchthose parts of me, at least while I'm wide-awake. I got nothing to eatof course, nor had I had. I pocketed the fifteen to take stripes. As we played, I noticed we were about evenly matched, which made the game competitive.“Do you play at school?” she asked.“Not for a long time,” I replied. “I don’t have much free time.”“Liz said you used to be really good.”“I was. It’s like anything else, if you don’t practice, your skills atrophy. I’m not nearly as good at chess as I used to be, either.”“What do you do? I mean, besides go to class and study?”“I run, practice karate, go to church, and. I hesitated glancing this woman over. She was smaller than my usual type. She sighed wistfully; I felt her tears brim on her eyes. I could not hold back. The echo of her pain was too much for me to continue to ignore."Pardon me miss, but I can't help but notice that something is troubling you." She looked away, her lips parting and I feel the rejection coming I know the line all too well, 'Leave me in peace', but she stops herself, and then looks up locking her eyes to mine.I smiled and I lead. They had supper in the Smokeless BBQ, and it was dark outside when they finally got up and went back to the room."Dutch sighed. "Is that all?" Daddy!" She yelped, "Give me a chance; I'm getting to the good part. We went around to the back of the motel, hoping we could look in their window. Luck was with us, because they hadn't closed the drapes on the back window. I suppose they figured there wasn't anything back there but trees. Or maybe they were so interested in each other when they came in,.